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You know those cartoons where someone puts too much soap in a washing machine or dish washer, then the entire room is flooded with bubbles? Well, my new bubble bath was a little more powerful than I expected. It was fluffy, then I turned on the jets, and suddenly fluffy didn’t cover it. When I turned the jets off, as I was laughing myself silly, the foam was about six inches above the tub edge. A trembling, quivering, almost sparkling mound of bubbles, floating magically, but not quite over flowing. It made me laugh, which I needed. But it was also Gloomaway bubble bath from Origins. Jon and I are big fans of the Gloomaway line of products. It’s grapefruit scented, but there are other things in it, and we’ve found that the scent of it, just buoys the spirts. I needed buoying up yesterday. But let this be a warning, less is more, especially if you’re going to try and turn on the whirlpool. It was like stirring some kind of icing, the more you stirred the lighter and fluffier it got. So many suds, that I actually had trouble getting enough clear water to clean up, but the feel of the foam was soft and pleasant, and didn’t leave that filmy feeling on my skin. No, I felt clean and renewed, and smelled yummy, too. What more can you ask from a bubble bath?

Our friend Richard came over and we all went out to see the new movie Igor. It’s about the only kids movie out there right now, and it was a Trinity weekend. The movie was fun, we all enjoyed it, but . . . I don’t know. Some vaguely unsatisfied feeling about it. But by the middle of the movie we were all cheering for our hero and his friends, and a world where evil scientists are the rock stars of their country, and being evil is a virtue, was a fun premise. There’s brain washing, like car washing; there’s a suicidal but immortal rabbit (Steve Buscemi is wonderful as Scampers), the reanimation of body parts into Frankensteinian monsters hasn’t been this much fun since YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN,, plus it’s a romance. But, haven’t written that, it’s not in the same caliber as Mel Brooks. It’s a kid’s movie, and it’s message is simpler. Evil is not all it’s cracked up to be, a person can be anything they want to be if they are good and try hard enough, and that heroes come in all shapes and sizes, and love may really be able to conquer all. Not a bad message for any movie. There are a lot of famous voices in this film, see if you can spot them. Reading the credits is cheating. I will say that John Cusack does a good job as our main Igor. You can be a fantastic actor, but that doesn’t mean you do good voice work; he does.

Jon’s pain meds wore off by the end of the movie, though. He’d had such a good day he left his cane at home. Well, I was his cane to the car. We got him home and poured him onto the couch. Got something on his stomach, and his pain meds into him. He’s gone from dreading the knee operation to sort of looking forward to it. Not the operation itself, but the results. Operation; six weeks of crutches; physical therapy, then no more pain and a functional knee. We’re both really looking forward to that. An operation, like so many things in life, isn’t about how much fun the process is, but the results. In some things you’re supposed to savor every step and enjoy it all, or the goal is not worth the journey, but other things, like this, it’s about keeping your eye on the ball and knowing that all the pain and all the frustration will lead to victory. Shoot for that, and remember that every moment of pain is another step closer to being healed.